Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, posted a controversial mail to the openSUSE mailing list hoping to steal developers away from the openSUSE project. A lot of developers saw this mail as a really lame attempt and told Mark to "fuck off".
Mark, I'd say that you first go fix you're 64-bit support and remove the binary blobs from the kernel before sneaking at openSUSE developers. What you did here is really lame. I'm wondering if you really want to start a distro war. I'd expect from a person like you to be much more flexible in that matter. What Novell did is definitely bad, IMO, but that doesn't mean that you should start poking on openSUSE developers and packagers. If you disagree with the current actions Novell has taken, then I'd suggest you start bashing on Novell and not on openSUSE. Remember, the openSUSE project is a community driven project, the devs still have the final word on what goes in and what not.
Instead of fighting against each others, I'd suggest we team up together and work on areas in Linux that still need a lot of improvements. Your disrespectful mail will only bring the 2 distributions further apart. Mark, if the openSUSE devs feel that they should jump ship, they have enough brains to decide when to do it.
Oh.... Mark.... wait, JBoss, which is now part of Red Hat also has an agreement with M$, maybe you should start bashing on Red Hat too. Or maybe you need another space walk to the International Space Station to clear your head a bit... spaceman!
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